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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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